Window cleaning in Laguna Niguel

Laguna Niguel runs up and down ridgelines, and the houses are set to catch the view: tall windows on the downhill elevation, decks on stilts, and driveways steep enough to make ladder work a judgement call. Working from the ground with poles is the safe way to do a two-storey elevation on a slope, which is most of the elevations here.

Close enough to the coast for the wind to carry salt up the canyons, far enough inland that it arrives as a film rather than spray — so the glass hazes over a season rather than a month. Marina Hills and Bear Brand sit high and exposed; Beacon Hill and the Laguna Sur side get the marine layer most mornings, which keeps stucco damp on the shaded walls long enough to grow something.